Spring Celebration: An Afternoon with C&G Artpartment, Elsa Prudent and Alexi Marshall
1.30pm - 3.30pm, Saturday 26 April
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Wysing Arts Centre invites you to a special afternoon of art and conversation reflecting on community building, migration and decolonisation with artists C&G Artpartment, Elsa Prudent and Alexi Marshall. Celebrating the culmination of their year-long residency at Wysing, C&G (Artists Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng Yee Man), will share new work and host a panel discussion with artist Phoenix Tse, political cartoonist Justin Wong and academic Jesse Ng to discuss artistic practice and community building during ongoing personal and political transition. 

Artist Elsa Prudent opens up her studio in Wysing’s sun filled Window Room to visitors, sharing a new series of painting-in-progress that grapples with inheritance and the colonial histories of the Caribbean. Guests will also be the first to see a new mural created collaboratively by Alexi Marshall with Wysing’s Creative Youth Council that brings flora and fauna from across Wysing’s site to life across the walls of Wysing’s Stable Block. Hong Kong milk tea brewed by C&G will be served during the afternoon.

Biographies 

C&G Artpartment are an artist duo from Hong Kong comprised of Clara Cheung and Gum Cheng. Founded in 2007, their artist-run space engages with social and cultural issues in Hong Kong through exhibitions and operating as a space for the exchange of ideas. On June 30, 2020, the People’s Republic of China imposed National Security Law onto Hong Kong and, thereafter, started political persecution that further destroyed free speech and civic society. In August 2021, C&G Artpartment had to end its space in Hong Kong and move to the UK. C&G have continued their practice and reopened in Sheffield.
Recent curatorial projects include Am I A Ghost? Singapore Biennale (2019); The 24901-mile-wide Red Line, Bloc Projects, Sheffield (2022); Iron Barricades - Cable Ties – Hope, C&G Artpartment, Sheffield (2024).

Alexi Marshall is an artist living and working in Hastings. Recent projects include Under the Pomegranate Moon, Flatland Projects, Bexhill (2023); and Cursebreakers, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill (2021). She was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards in 2024. She has worked with the Creative Youth Council at Wysing since 2023, delivering workshops and creating a series of artworks in collaboration with its participants.

Jesse Ng is a PhD candidate based in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. She researches the intersection of decolonisation, cosmopolitanism and migration by examining an arc of visual, literary, cinematic and cultural texts about postcolonial and cultural Hong Kong.

Elsa Prudent is an artist living and working between Bordeaux and Paris. Select projects include Phantom Itineraries, CAPC, Bordeaux (2024); Don’t Feed Your Ghosts, They’ll Come Back Hungry! Driftproject, Marseille (2023); and Enjoy the Silence, Eliane Project, Bordeaux (2022). In 2022, she was artist-in-residence for The Astéries* Project, a research residency looking at the colonial history of Bayonne, Bordeaux and La Rochelle.

Ngo Chun Phoenix Tse is an artist living and working in London. Recent projects include Transforming: Here and Now, University of Warwick, Coventry (2025); Through a Glass Darkly, Metroland Cultures, London (2024); and Here, There and Everywhere: Encountering Ghosts, Forests, Axis, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2024). In 2025, he received a grant from the Freelands Foundation to support his practice. In 2024 Tse was a part of Peer-to-Peer, an artist support programme convened by Metroland Cultures.

Justin Wong is a London-based comics artist and political cartoonist. He is known for his political cartoons in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper. He taught at Hong Kong Baptist University (2008–2021), and in 2022 founded Skip Class, an online platform for independent art education. Wong’s work explores resistance and identity. Recent projects include several graphic novels, including Lonely Planet, Hello World, New Hong Kong, and Je préfèrerais ne, which have been published in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and France.